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Nienkämper
Company
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Founder | Klaus Nienkämper |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Furniture |
| Website | https://www.nienkamper.com/ |
Nienkämper is a furniture manufacturer founded by Klaus Nienkämper in 1968.
The North American company operates a 120,000-square-foot factory in Toronto's east end that produces furniture for office, residential, institutional and hospitality applications with showrooms in Toronto, New York, Chicago and Dallas.[1]
History
Klaus Nienkämper, who emigrated to Canada from Duisburg, Germany in 1960,[2] is recognized for helping to introduce modern European furniture to Canadians at a time when modernism was just beginning to enter the country.[3] In Making Toronto Modern, Christopher Armstrong argues that Toronto’s residents only started to adopt modernism in the 1950s, and that Finnish archit